From: demerphq Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:21:42 GMT Subject: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions Message-ID: <9b18b3110908271521w764684cfg3b009f6960ee5dc4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090827203402.GC7168@kisimul> 2009/8/27 seanh : > 2. They don't want to look at the latex source but the PDFs built from > it, which they're going to annotate with their comments. So I need an > easy way for them to get the PDF of each commit from gitweb without > having to checkout the repo and build it themselves. Normally I > wouldn't commit the PDF files into the repo because they're compiled > files not source files, but it seems that just building a PDF and > committing it along with each commit to trunk would be by far the > easiest way to achieve this. But will git store the PDFs efficiently, or > will the repo start to get really big? As you can generate the PDF's from the latex then just hack gitweb to let them download it from there. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"